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kevin42 18 hours ago

My guess is design (features/functionality, not code). When you don't have to write every line of code and you can quickly iterate on features, you have a lot of freedom to dial in what you really want out of an app.

blanched 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be clear, I didn't mean this as an anti-AI gotcha. They also said:

> We get feature requests, improvements, ideas, feedback

So maybe I misunderstood, but it sounded like the design was external (and based on an existing product to begin with).

Also, my understanding was that "vibe coding" meant more of "make it do X" as opposed to "here's a design for X, implement it."

thraway3837 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, I was trying to be glib by putting "vibe" in quotes, because I think that term is used for people who have zero experience in software engineering, but when used by senior engineers, it's something else. But, I don't know if some populations would still call it vibe coding.

The design is external in that the requirements come from external customers or internal customers (since these applications) are used by both. We're not trying to duplicate or replicate any existing system, but I can't confidently say that I'm not drawing from any prior art.

Hope that makes sense.

blanched 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Makes sense! My mistake for assuming it was the former definition, lesson learned.

Hopefully soon our industry will align on some standard terms. I feel like "AI-assisted", "agentic coding", "vibe coding", etc each have a few different meanings already.

thraway3837 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

YES!!! Very well said and captures what I was trying to convey.

There's also certain features of an application that most of us engineers know how it works or how to do it, but it is just so painful to do it by hand. Or other features that you've always wanted because you saw another app do it and it was beautifully done and you can just "have" that feature in your app too.

The joy is in seeing the feature come alive, not so much in fighting the computer.